MP Caleb Amisi: Why I have never met Ruto

“They never call me to such meetings because they know I’ll embarrass the president. They don’t want him to be embarrassed because they won’t get that little money they want from him,” he alleged.

He has also questioned the formula used to arrive at the projects done prior to the national event saying that some such as the military-built Matulo Airstrip adds little to the locals but was implemented nonetheless to impress President Ruto.

“We are not going to have flights landing in that airstrip. It is going to be idle, grass will grow on it until another Madaraka Day. That’s when they’ll do a renovation because there are planes landing on it. It was just the first army plane carrying the president that landed there and that will be it,” he said.

“The amount of money used on that particular day runs to the tune of Sh 900 million. You can imagine how many roads could have been constructed across my constituency which is always rated as the only one with no tarmac roads,” he lamented.

Bungoma Town received a facelift ahead of the presidential visit benefiting from an upgrade of some roads to bitumen standard, street lighting, and launch of projects including Bungoma Immigration Office.

According to government spokesperson, Isaac Mwaura, the government incurred a bill of Sh 807 million for the first phase of Masinde Muliro stadium construction and spent Sh 139 million on Matulo Airstrip in the run-up to the event.